A Mariposa Finale

The Music Academy staged its third and final performance of its Mariposa series at Hahn Hall with two former alumnae, Frank Huang, concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic, who attended the Miraflores campus in 1998, and Natasha Kislenko, who was at the academy in 2001 and has also served as a teaching artist since 2004.

Huang, who currently serves on the faculty of New York’s Juilliard School and has also performed on NPR’s Performance Today, ABC’s Good Morning America, and CNN’s American Morning with Paula Zahn, was in top form with Beethoven’s “Sonata No.5 for Violin and Piano in F Major, ‘Spring.’”

The rest of the program was equally rapturous with Pablo de Sarasate’s “Zigeunerweisen,” Clara Schumann’s “Three Romances for Violin and Piano,” and Camille Saint- Saëns’ “Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso.”

A dynamic duo, indeed…